https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5 Historical Significnce en-us 2021-10-20 20:46:02 UTC 2025-11-09 00:03:36 UTC hello@padlet.com michelmurti1_1 https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831649746 On September 4, 1957, the first day of classes at Central High, Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the black students' entry into the high school. Later that month, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school]]> 2021-10-20 21:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831649746 michelmurti1_1 https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831667609 The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.]]> 2021-10-20 21:14:38 UTC https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831667609 michelmurti1_1 https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831672697 Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals.]]> 2021-10-20 21:17:21 UTC https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831672697 michelmurti1_1 https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831683853 King addresses a crowd of demonstrators outside the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington on August 28, 1963. He delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech to more than 250,000 people]]> 2021-10-20 21:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831683853 michelmurti1_1 https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831687724 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination near the end of his third year in office.]]> 2021-10-20 21:26:35 UTC https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831687724 michelmurti1_1 https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831699093 Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964, he was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the Black community. ]]> 2021-10-20 21:33:49 UTC https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831699093 michelmurti1_1 https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831705234 In the fight to secure voting rights for African Americans and other minorities across the country, the march was meant to be a peaceful representation of the outrage many felt in their fight to overcome the obstacles standing in the way of voting.]]> 2021-10-20 21:37:48 UTC https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831705234 michelmurti1_1 https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831713018 The Black Panther Party, originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Black Power political organization founded by college students ]]> 2021-10-20 21:42:45 UTC https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831713018 michelmurti1_1 https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831717287 police arrested burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Evidence linked the break-in to President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign. ... Nationally televised, the Watergate Committee hearings boosted public confidence in Congress.]]> 2021-10-20 21:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831717287 michelmurti1_1 https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831722045 The South Vietnamese stronghold of Saigon (now known as Ho Chi Minh City) falls to People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong on April 30, 1975. The South Vietnamese forces had collapsed under the rapid advancement of the North Vietnamese. It resulted in nearly 60,000 American deaths and an estimated 2 million Vietnamese deaths. It was the first war to come into American living rooms nightly, and the only conflict that ended in defeat for American arms. The war caused turmoil on the home front, as anti-war protests became a feature of American life.]]> 2021-10-20 21:48:36 UTC https://padlet.com/michelmurti1_1/y6ttp16kt0nsx4w5/wish/1831722045